Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
